[whatwg] Autofocus readonly Input Elements

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > > There are no as such concrete use cases though, one use case can be if
> > > user want to get the element in focus (may be by scrolling the page on
> > > load). Currently, Firefox & Opera does focus the readonly elements on
> > > autofocus whereas IE & Webkit does not. Need to clear the ambiguity.
> >
> > If they're focusable at all, I don't see why they wouldn't be
> > autofocusable. Is there a use case for special-casing read-only ones?
> >
>
> Right. The question is whether read-only/disabled/hidden inputs should be
> focusable.


Readonly elements are focusable both in IE and WebKit.


> I don't personally see pros and cons in either direction, but I
> wanted to make sure there was agreement here before changing WebKit's
> behavior.
>

The question is whether or not there's any backward compatibility issue
given the market share of IE and WebKit today.

- Ryosuke